Putin Warns "Trust Between US And Russia Has Collapsed Under Trump" As Tillerson Gets Frigid Reception

Trust between Russia and the US has collapsed under the Trump administration, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on Wednesday, as Moscow delivered an unusually frigid if not hostile reception to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a face-off over Syria, shortly after Putin said the recent chemical attack was a staged "false flag" and predicted that more are coming, while at the same time the US accused Russia of a gas attack "cover up."

In an interview on Wednesday, Putin said that if Donald Trump had intended to bring about a thaw in US relations with Russia, he has failed to see this intention through.

"One could say that the level of trust on a working level, especially on the military level, has not improved but has rather deteriorated," Putin said in an interview broadcast on Russian television moments after Tillerson sat down with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an ornate hall. Putin doubled down on Russia's support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, repeating denials that Assad's government was to blame for the gas attack last week and adding a new theory that the attack may have been faked by Assad's enemies.

Quoted by Reuters, Lavrod said that "I won’t hide the fact that we have a lot of questions, taking into account the extremely ambiguous and sometimes contradictory ideas which have been expressed in Washington across the whole spectrum of bilateral and multilateral affairs. And of course, that’s not to mention that apart from the statements, we observed very recently the extremely worrying actions, when an illegal attack against Syria was undertaken."

Lavrov also noted that many key State Department posts remain vacant since the new administration took office - a point of sensitivity in Washington.

Just as Tillerson sat down for talks, a senior Russian official assailed the "primitiveness and loutishness" of U.S. rhetoric, part of a volley of statements that appeared timed to maximize the awkwardness during the first visit by a member of Trump's cabinet.

"In general, primitiveness and loutishness are very characteristic of the current rhetoric coming out of Washington. We'll hope that this doesn't become the substance of American policy," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russia's state-owned RIA news agency."As a whole, the administration's stance with regards to Syria remains a mystery. Inconsistency is what comes to mind first of all."

Tillerson kept to more calibrated remarks, saying his aim was "to further clarify areas of sharp difference so that we can better understand why these differences exist and what the prospects for narrowing those differences may be." "I look forward to a very open, candid, frank exchange so that we can better define the U.S.-Russian relationship from this point forward," he told Lavrov.

After journalists were ushered out of the room, Lavrov's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, wrote on her Facebook page that U.S. journalists traveling with Tillerson had behaved as if they were in a "bazaar" by shouting questions to Lavrov. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tillerson might meet Putin later on Wednesday if the two top diplomats decided it would be useful to brief the Russian president on their talks. But Peskov too did not hold back his criticism, saying calls from Western powers for Russia to cut support for Assad amounted to giving terrorists a free hand.

Moscow's hostility to Trump administration figures is a sharp change from last year, when Putin hailed Trump as a strong figure and Russian state television was consistently full of effusive praise for him. Trump’s repeated claims that he could mend relations between Washington and Moscow has fueled accusations that he secretly colluded with Russia to win the US presidential election last year. His administration is currently under a congressional investigation over alleged ties with Russia.

Some have even gone so far to suggest that Trump's entire Syria operation has been staged - in cooperation with Russia - to deflect attention from his proximity toward Russia, making it appear that he and Putin remain foes. Judging by the complete disappearance of stories involving Trump being manipulated by Russia over the past week, if indeed this was the strategy, it has succeeded.

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Meanwhile, Moscow has has stood by Assad, defying western demands to cut loose with the Syrian leader, saying the poison gas belonged to rebels, an explanation Washington dismisses as beyond credible. Putin said that either gas belonging to the rebels was released when it was hit by a Syrian strike on a rebel arms dump, or the rebels faked the incident to discredit Assad.

Tillerson traveled to Moscow with a joint message from Western powers that Russia should withdraw its support for Assad after a meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized economies also attended by Middle East allies.

Overnight, in an interview with the Fox Business Network, Trump said he was not planning to order U.S. forces into Syria, but that he had to respond to the images of dead children poisoned in the gas attack. "We’re not going into Syria," he said in excerpts of the interview on the station's website. "But when I see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons ... and see these beautiful kids that are dead in their father's arms, or you see kids gasping for life ... when you see that, I immediately called (Defense Secretary) General Mattis."

Putin and Trump are yet to meet face to face to discuss the tensions between Russia and the US. A meeting of the two leaders has not been scheduled so far, even though Moscow has indicated it is willing.

Shut up Putin, you asked for it when you sailed that ship through the English Channel and oppressed the LGBTQ+ community. Now you’re going to feel our wrath, as we march into nuclear war, led by our greatest ally in the whole world ISRAEL! I support ISRAEL 1000% in ANYTHING they want to do, because they are literally the ONLY democracy in the Middle East! Unless we want another holocaust to happen, we need to support our greatest ally in all of their endeavors.

Kinda ironic that those with more than two functioning brain cells now see Vlad Putin as leader of the free world, given the overwhelming evidence in the public domain about this "gas attack" makes Trump and President Kushner look fucking ridiculous.

Indeed, desperation. I believe the memo was received and internalized fairly well. The US and it's friendlies are in a world of shit. Recently you have Janet Yellen claiming, well I think we've done a fair job ..

Sabre rattling is what they've got. All other bubbles are near as I can figure, fairly much played out. Sure, you've got some things hangin on by threads of bullshit, but at the end of the day, as somehere recently pointed out, bloviation, lies, and manufactured statistics only goes so far. I mean hell, just ask the Russians ...

When Fareed Zacharia starts singing the praises of DJT's reversal, one can automatically assume the George Sorros playbook in effect, and I don't believe there is going to be any major cooperation, by the other parties involved ..

Once again, look at the "news" leading up to these latest events. Look what has been pushed out of the headlines. There is the answer .. and as I have mentioned previously, the don, has had prior "business experience" with the Sorros ..

While one cannot be certain at all regarding any "outcomes" presently, one can clearly see the road that brought the US to this point.

We've got Guccifer saying he got the emails from "Seth" who was ahem...MURDERED...and a known perjurer in the form of Clapper saying "Nope, no spying on Trump ever happened. I would know!"...then Susan Rice & Farkas admitting it...while the communist Brennan was in charge of the CIA...LMMFAO!!!

I mean The Onion couldn't do a better job of piecing together the reality of it...lol.

We're just monkeys with designer jeans. One of the few constants we can rely upon is that all of us monkeys are competing against one another, at all times. That competition can really, really take strange turns. However, most all those turns have been travelled, the trail has been blazed. As relevant and important information becomes more and more available to the common man, that competition will get even more strange.

Lol! I love when you make an imbecile from yourself, my retarded joo friend. Yes, you have a stinky shit instead of your degenerated joo brain. But some sayanim, other filthy joos already upvoted you so your job here is accomplished.

Trump's circus train has derailed from the tracks. The Trump Circus will not make it to its next stop. The Trump administration is a bunch of crooks who all realize that they have only about 18 months to loot the United States before the Republicans get booted out of Congress. Their only hope is Pelosi and Company, the equally crooked Democrats who have sold their party down the river. As a career politician, how did Nancy Pelosi wind up being worth $300 million?

Well I suppose so, but I at the very least, find it a bit unsettling that the very first two replys to my "comment" are from ghosts. Now don't get me wrong, I like ghosts, but damn, this may be a sign ,,,,

Actually, no! This information came to me directly from Spicer, after he had apologized for the Hitler reference.

This is classic 69 dimension checker game being played by our leader and the bestest president of US of A, Donald Trump. Most of you cannot even wrap your head around what his moves are intended for. With the Venison carrier group headed towards North Korea, he will send the Veal carrier group to Syria. Next, a surprise attack from the Venison carrier group will take out the entire NK's army, navy and air force and force the North Korean midget to surrender. Then the unstoppable US army will knock out the PLA and capture Beijing, forcing China to capitulate.

The Veal carrier group will take out Assad and with NATO's help march towards Moscow from the South. The great US army, just like Hitler and Napoleon, will capture Moscow in a few days, forcing Putin to hand over charge to Trump.

Finally, Trump will declare himself as the supreme leader of the World and peace shall finally descend on this planet and everybody will live happily ever after.

Putin is a dynamic man, powerful, both in character and physically. He is BRILLIANT, as is Bashar al-Assad, and he is SHREWD. Important qualities in a leader. He is alo a practical man, restrained, wise. Yet there is NO QUESTION that he will DO what he says he will do.
Don't forget he pacified the Chechens, NOBODY had been able to do that previously, NO ONE.

So while Trump and the Tribe are feeling VERY uppity they may find, in the end that they have LOST.
The ADL is calling exposure of Kushner: "ANTI-SEMITISM" so now we know that the TRUTH = ANTI-SEMITISM.

Soros backed Trump son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in real estate venture with $259 MILLION:
George Soros was the man who provided Cadre with a $259 million line of credit. “Soros has had a long and productive relationship with the Kushner family.”